04099cam a2200913 4500 531585268 TxAuBib 20210910120000.0 ||||||s2005||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781588364746 1588364747 B000FCK71U Amazon de403c5c-3217-42a2-ba8b-74af8638dcb6 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 163637 163637 163637 69113 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib See, Lisa. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan [Libby eBook] : A Novel. Random House Publishing Group, 2005. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 3793kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. contemporary fiction. Historical Fiction. Historical Romance. Female friendship. arranged marriage. historical novels. literary fiction. Chinese Culture. Women's Fiction. chinese fiction. lisa see books. relationships. Coming of age. Married women. multicultural. chinese women. 21st century. 19th Century. Contemporary. footbinding. Friendship. Historical. childbirth. literature. language. marriage. American. betrayal. lisa see. romance. culture. Writing. History. friends. secrecy. family. Adult. Japan. Asian. women. China. Asia. love. HTML:Lily is haunted by memories–of who she once was, and of a person, long gone, who defined her existence. She has nothing but time now, as she recounts the tale of Snow Flower, and asks the gods for forgiveness. In nineteenth-century China, when wives and daughters were foot-bound and lived in almost total seclusion, the women in one remote Hunan county developed their own secret code for communication: nu shu (“women’s writing”). Some girls were paired with laotongs, “old sames,” in emotional matches that lasted throughout their lives. They painted letters on fans, embroidered messages on handkerchiefs, and composed stories, thereby reaching out of their isolation to share their hopes, dreams, and accomplishments. With the arrival of a silk fan on which Snow Flower has composed for Lily a poem of introduction in nu shu, their friendship is sealed and they become “old sames” at the tender age... Historical Fiction. Literature. Fiction. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 17:40:22. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/DE4/03C/5C/SnowFlowerandtheSecretFanANovel9781588364746.epub Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=DE403C5C-3217-42A2-BA8B-74AF8638DCB6&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/DE4/03C/5C/SnowFlowerandtheSecretFanANovel9781588364746.epub Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=DE403C5C-3217-42A2-BA8B-74AF8638DCB6&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/DE4/03C/5C/SnowFlowerandtheSecretFanANovel9781588364746.epub Excerpt (OverDrive Read) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=DE403C5C-3217-42A2-BA8B-74AF8638DCB6&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)